Pointless ExperimentsPavlov's Frog writes: I once spent 20 minutes with my eyes closed to see what it was like being blind. I smashed my knee on the kitchen cupboard, and decided I'd be better off deaf as you can still watch television.
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Scaryduck - twitter.com/duckorange, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:00)
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Snail GraffittiA B3ta newsletter post about a London artist who decorates snails with classical paintings reminded me of my misspent youth...
At the age of 9, I desperately wanted to be David Attenborough and I would conduct experiments upon the local wildlife and fill notebooks with "observations".
I decided to discover the migratory habits of snails by raiding my mothers multitude of brightly coloured nail varnishes, collecting a collective of snails, painting their shells with varnish and releasing them at specific colour-co-ordinated distances away.
Suprisingly, many of them came back or were found by my mother and our neighbors for several years afterwards. I still do not know those polka dotted shelly beasts survived predation...
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Sounds likeA good experiment that I think wasn't stupid at all. Good work!
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the bright colourscould have fooled predators into thinking they were poisonous?
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Festivipros you caught my nose in your left castanet, love, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 9:26,
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NiceI'm thinking they may have survived predation because of the vivid markings.
Think 'wasps' and 'poison-arrow frogs', birds give them a wide berth.
Edit: Good thinking Vipros you beat me to it.
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Well its decided thenTo save Black Rhinos from poachers we shall paint them tartan!
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